Acknowledgement

The implementation of Frontend is inspired by following papers:

[1] Alex Ramirez, Oliverio J. Santana, Josep L. Larriba-Pey, and Mateo Valero. "Fetching instruction streams." 35th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). 2002.

[2] Yasuo Ishii, Jaekyu Lee, Krishnendra Nathella, and Dam Sunwoo. "Rebasing instruction prefetching: An industry perspective." IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 19.2: 147-150. 2020.

[3] Yasuo Ishii, Jaekyu Lee, Krishnendra Nathella, and Dam Sunwoo. "Re-establishing fetch-directed instruction prefetching: An industry perspective." 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS). 2021.